This text provides a background view of the object approach, related geometric aspects, the
different level of data modelling and the role of geo-information theory. The rest of the book …

Qualitative spatial reasoning is important in large spatial databases. It is based on the
manipulation of qualitative spatial relationships and used to derive new spatial knowledge …

This paper presents a representation formalism for the denition of general qualitative
orientation relationships, an important category of relationships in a geographic database …

In this paper we propose a general approach for reasoning in space. The approach is
composed of a set of two general constraints to govern the spatial relationships between …

Les mesures ou le contrôle de la qualité des primitives géométriques dans les bases de
données géographiques ont souvent été abordées avec une attention particulière portée sur …

There is growing interest in many application domains for the temporal treatment and
manipulation of spatially referenced objects. Handling the time dimension in spatial …

One of the main functions of spatial information systems such as GIS is the unification and
integration of different data sets and making them available for coherent manipulation and …

Ce travail de thèse est consacré à l'étude de la géométrie des entités surfaciques dans les
bases de données géographiques, dans un contexte d'évaluation de la qualité de la forme …

Qualitative representation of spatial information is important in large spatial databases. This
type of information can be used in manipulation and analysis when no precise geometric …

This thesis is an in-depth study in the area of Qualitative Spatial Representation and
Reasoning. The study is motivated by the potential advantages to be gained from the …